Got back from vegas and stepped on the scale this morning…and I weigh exactly the same as the day I left.

4 days of eating buffets and nothing changed

I had at least 1 buffet per day (one day I actually went to a brunch buffet and then a dinner buffet)

It was AWESOME! I can’t resist the food selection, it’s just so damn good to go up and have 100′s of foods to choose from.

All my measurements are the same as well (waist, shoulders etc)

I probably walked about 10km’s each day just going from casino to casino on the strip.

So with absolutely no attention to the amount of food I was eating it seems as though I ended up eating almost exactly at maintenance for 4 days in vegas using buffet’s as my main source of food (I had various other meals, but they were small in comparison to the buffets)

There is no reason for me to have expected anything different, as it would be very unrealistic to have overeaten enough in 4 days to make any significant change in my bodyweight or measurements.

John

In order to lose weight you will have to be in a caloric deficit, this shouldn’t be news to you.

Eating at BMR will maintain your weight

Once you’ve lost the weight you wanted, you can start eating at your daily caloric maintenance level. This is a big difference from going back to eating the way you used to eat that caused you to gain the weight that you just try to lose.

In other words, if you’ve just gone through a dramatic weight loss you have learned two things:

1) You’ve learned how little food you need to eat to lose weight

2) You know how much food you used to eat that caused you to gain weight

BUT you have one more step to go and that is:

Learning how much food you can eat to MAINTAIN your new weight

This last point is the final step for lasting weight loss. Obviously you can’t go back to eating the way you used to, otherwise you’ll just gain weight again.

On the other hand you don’t want to be on your weight loss diet either otherwise you’ll continue to lose weight. What you need to do is increase your calories to your estimated BMR. From there any extra exercise you do might allow you to eat a bit more food.

Pretty simple stuff. If you stick with a good BMR estimate as your maintenance calorie level you should be fine with maintaining your new lower bodyweight.

John